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You’ll find sunken Spanish galleons, inland blue holes, underwater caves, and forest-like coral reefs teeming with marine life. You can even feed and swim with reef sharks and get your adrenaline pumping.  

Best time to dive?

The temperature of our crystal-blue water averages an amazing 80°F year-round. Which means it’s perfect for diving and a variety of other water adventures, such as kite-boarding, kayaking, waverunning, island boat tours, wild dolphin excursions and even shark encounters.

Best time to Dive?

The temperature of our crystal-blue water averages an amazing 80°F year-round. Which means it’s perfect for diving and a variety of other water adventures, such as kite-boarding, kayaking, waverunning, island boat tours, wild dolphin excursions and even shark encounters.

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Sea Life

Sea life around the Bahamas and Out Islands includes frogfish, angelfish, Manatees, sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, bonefish, stingrays, blind cave fish, colourful reef fish, spotted eagle rays, sea turtles, dolphins, grouper, snapper, and more

Dive Sites

Dive sites throughout The Bahamas include shallow, mid-range, and deep water reefs, in addition to many natural wrecks and shipwrecks, plus a train wreck and the “Road to Atlantis.” Deep blue-holes, swim-through caves, and dramatic wall dives off the 6,000-feet-deep Tongue of the Ocean provide an exhilarating dive experience.

BEN'S CAVE

Named for UNEXSO legend, Ben Rose, Ben’s Cave is one of the two inland blue holes within The Lucayan National Park.This natural feature is definitely a sight to see and a dive into the cavern is a visit into the ancient past. The clear upper portion of the water within the cave is fresh. It floats on top of the lower salt water. The passages withing this cavern system extend horizontally for thousands of yards and it is deemed to be one of the longest surveyed cavern systems in the world. You must be accompanied by an authorized dive instructor in order to dive here, which will be arranged prior to the dive date. During the dive, a showcase of interesting features will be on display such as stalactites, stalagmites, a halocline, fossilized conch shells, bivalves and much more.

DEAN'S BLUE HOLE

Dare to be brave, be bold, be adventurous, climb up the rocky pathway and plunge into the 663 feet depths of the second deepest blue hole in the world. The most spectacular thing about this blue hole is the beach that surrounds it. It’s enclosed on three sides by a natural rock amphitheater, and on the fourth side by a turquoise lagoon and powder white beach.
This is also where the Vertical Blue Free Diving Competition is held every year. Competitors, film crews, and spectators travel from all around the world just to witness the male or female free diver that can dive the deepest into the blue hole.

RUNWAY 10

The depth under the boat is forty feet with the boat hanging near the edge of the wall. The edge of the drop off has numerous large coral heads and varies from forty to sixty feet before dropping sharply to 100. A sloping ledge rolls down to 200 before becoming a vertical wall again. Several schools of grunts hover around the top of the reef. There are several large sand patches towards shore and these may have queen conch, yellowhead jawfish, sand tilefish and yellow. There are a few friendly groupers and mutton snappers. Hammerheads are occasionally spotted swimming parallel to the wall above the deep ledge. At night there are frequent sightings of basket starfish, octopus, crabs and pufferfish. Sometimes lobsters and rare nudibranchs.

HOFFMANN'S CAY BLUE HOLE

This blue hole, located in the southern Berry Islands, is about 600 feet wide and has a cliff that hangs 20 feet above the water. Those who jump into it from the cliff speak of an adrenaline rush as they venture into its mysterious depths. Its only living inhabitants are said to be oysters.

Hoffmann’s Cay is the most visited blue hole in these islands. It is accessed via a horseshoe-shaped beach, just behind a patch of Australian Pine trees at the shoreline.

SHARK LEDGE

This site is called “Mini Wall” in the Cruising Guide. It is a beautiful ledge that drops from 15 feet to about 70 feet. A family of friendly Caribbean reef sharks cruise the area and tame groupers greet divers. Occasionally, you will also see turtles and eagle rays here.

THUNDERBALL GROTTO

Located just west of Staniel Cay, this fantastic underwater cave system is great for snorkeling, diving, and wading. It is teeming with exotic marine life and a kaleidoscope of brilliantly colored coral reefs and fish, like yellow-tail snappers, Angel fish, Sergeant Majors and the like. The grotto’s mystique is heightened by the small, almost hidden entrance. It is advised to enter at ebb tide (low or slack tide) and snorkeling equipment is optional. At high tide, however, diving equipment is necessary.

The grotto got its name from the 1965 James Bond spy film “Thunderball,”

STUART COVE'S DIVE BAHAMAS

Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas is Nassau’s leading full service dive resort. Originally opened in 1978, the operation has grown to a fleet of seven dive vessels, with five of the boats over 40 feet in length.Located on the southwest side of New Providence Island, Stuart Cove’s is in the ideal physical location to take advantage of the diverse underwater geological formations.As such, dive sites are available for divers with no experience all the way up to expert-level dives including four new shipwrecks we have helped place in the last two years.

S.S. SAPONA SHIPWRECK

The S.S. Sapona was one of a fleet of concrete ships originally commissioned by former U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson, to serve as troop transport during WWI, because steel was in short supply. Said to have been designed by Henry Ford himself, it was built by the Liberty Ship Building Company in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is sister to the ship ‘Cape Fear’.

Because the ship was completed after the end of the war, it was sold for scrap to Carl Fisher, one of the developers of Miami Beach.

 

 

Info by Bahamas.com

How to Arrive

The Bahamas is conveniently accessible by both air and sea. Visitors can arrive by scheduled and chartered flights at any one of our eleven (11) international airports. To arrive by sea, guests are welcomed by cruise ship or private boat through any one of our designated marine official ports of entry.

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